Vocabulary 6-4Liu Bang (p. 178)sundial (p. 182)seismograph (p. 182) fu poetry (p. 182)acupuncture (p. 183) Questions 1. What changes did Liu Bang bring to China? (summarize) 2. How did Wudi strengthen China's government? (analyze) 3. Would you rather have lived under the rule of Liu Bang or Wudi? Why? (elaborate) 4. What were the social classes in Han China? (describe) 5. Why were wealthy merchants in the lowest class? (analyze) 6. How were Han social classes different than most social divisions? (elaborate) 7. What were Confucius's ideas about family? (recall) 8. Why were sons more highly valued than daughters? (explain) 9. Why did the family take on such importance during the Han dynasty? (reading check - cause/effect) 10. What were some of the cultural and scientific achievements of the Han? (identify) 11. How did the fu style of poetry differ from the shi style? (contrast) 12. What do you think was the most important invention of the Han dynasty? Why? (evaluate) 13. What advances did the Chinese make during the Han period? (categorizing - reading check) 14. The Han Dynasty invented pencils that we use every day. (True or False) 15. Confucius had taught that the mother was the head of the household. (True or False) 16. The military was not an official class in the Confucian system. (True or False) 17. The Shiji, also called the Records of the Grand Historian, is a history that describes more than two thousand years of Chinese culture. (True or False)